Metaphor and Literalism in Buddhism: The Doctrinal History of Nirvana
... The notion of nirvana originally used the image of extinguishing a fire.
Although the attainment of nirvana, ultimate liberation, is the focus of the
Buddha’s teaching, its interpretation has been a constant problem to Buddhist
exegetes, and has changed in different historical and doctrinal contexts. ...
Maitreya, the Future Buddha
... culminate in a conference exploring the Maitreya theme from as many
different perspectives as possible.
With the enthusiastic support of the Department of Religion and the
East Asian Studies Program along with the assistance of the university
administration, Professors Kitagawa and Overmyer were inv ...
Behind the Façade of Secret Mantra
... eighth consciousness - the Tathāgatagarbha. Therefore, they
have invented the method of visualizing drops in the central
channel. Through this, they have attempted to dupe followers by
counterfeiting the Tathāgatagarbha (the ālayavijñāna set forth
by the Buddha) with these drops and by pretending th ...
EXPOSITION OF THE SUTRA OF BRAHMA S NET
... collective wisdom and power. So too can we confirm through the thought
of such great masters as Wonhyo, Uisang, Jinul, Hyujeong and others a key
feature of Buddhism: its power to encourage people to live harmoniously
with each other through mutual understanding and respect.
...
The Quintessence of Secret (Esoteric) Buddhism
... This 'Quintessence of Secret (Esoteric) Buddhism' is the
combination of the first and second volumes of the previous
'Essence of Secret Buddhism', which were published in the
United States in the past two years (1983). It is supplemented
with new documents about mystic formulas, Yantras, and
Mudras, ...
Miracles and Superhuman Powers in South Asian Buddhist Literature
... testament to the holiness and sacred purpose of the miracle-worker. Given the evidentiary
purpose of miracles, they are also necessarily acts that have a witness or witnesses. These
elements are present in David Hume’s discussion, but feature prominently in John
...
Master Dogen`s Shobogenzo
... A Message on the Publication of the
English TripiMaka
The Buddhist canon is said to contain eighty-four thousand diffierent teachings.
I believe that this is because the Buddha’s basic approach was to prescribe a
different treatment for every spiritual ailment, much as a doctor prescribes a
differen ...
Tara and Tibetan Buddhism: The Emergence of the Feminine Divine
... her head, creating an usniska, a protrusion seen as a mark of enlightenment. Her hair is
also flowing down onto her shoulders, showing the “boundless freedom of uncontrived,
intrinsic awareness.” (Chagdud Khandro 28) She is adorned with a crown, earrings,
necklaces, bracelets, armlets, anklets, and ...
The mandalas of Tibetan Buddhism and western psychotherapy
... presented in the first three chapters in order to highlight how this material is
either conforming or conflicting in nature, and determine how and if the theories
and usage of the mandala in each context might be reconciled.
As a precursor to the first two chapters of this thesis, it would be useful ...
OF Master Hongyi`s Last Calligraphic Work - Papyrus
... Chinese characters and cultivated a full set of artistic skills to write them and aesthetic
criteria to appreciate them. These were well based on the cultural values of
Confucianism and Taoism and were used to distinguish their calligraphy from the
common or popular Chinese handwriting at that time. ...
Chapter 1 - Princeton University Press
... “thing, concrete reality” listed in the LSJ entry does not in fact refer to “concrete physical
things” at all, as one should expect, but only to abstract “subjects” or “objects”. As I note
in Appendix A, the English in LSJ is sometimes peculiar, probably because it was first
published in the mid-ni ...
Sunyata 07 - Was Arya Nagarjuna A Mahayanist
... Nikaya. He further says that “Nagarjuna was
claimed by the Mahayanists as their own,
but his real position would seem to have
been not to take sides in a provocative
controversy hardly conducive to progress
on the way. He perhaps hoped to reunite
the schools, old and new, in a single Buddhist
doct ...
Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra
... has gained so far in his study. They are no doubt short
of being quite satisfactory from a strictly scholarly point
of view, but the author's earnest wish is to open the way,
if he could so hope, for further study and more thoroughgoing investigation of the text. Mahayana Buddhism is
just beginning ...
Schism, semiosis and the Soka Gakkai
... The Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and the Nichiren Shoshu have always had a complex
relationship. Formed in 1930 by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda, the Soka Kyoiku Gakkai was
from its inception an independent lay-Buddhist organization. For 60 years, they maintained an uneasy
partnership with ...
AN INTIMATE DESTRUCTION
... the work of the French writer Georges Bataille. Specifically, it explores the approaches
of the two fields to the concepts of desire, death, and the separate self, and examines
how the treatment of these themes in Buddhism affected their role in early twentieth
century France, particularly within Su ...
Gender and the soteriology debate in Buddhism: Is a
... canonical and commentarial literature, within the same corpus are indications
that this was not a matter of consensus.
There has been substantial research on women in Buddhism in general
over the past few decades, one of the pioneering works being Isaline Blew
Horner‘s Women under Primitive Buddhis ...
WONHYO - A. Charles Muller
... collective wisdom and power. So too can we confirm through the thought
of such great masters as Wonhyo, Uisang, Jinul, Hyujeong and others a key
feature of Buddhism: its power to encourage people to live harmoniously
with each other through mutual understanding and respect.
...
Buddhist Monastic Discipline
... Preface to the Second Edition
discipline could normally be achieved only by the monk who
gave all his time to the task.'1
Nevertheless, it is our belief that the subject has not received
the attention it deserves. The present work attempts to assess
the role of the monk in the religion which is the ...
Skilful Means: A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism
... years of inaccessibility. Those interested in particular details will no doubt
explore more recent editions and translations of individual Buddhist texts
for themselves. There is also a need for more detailed studies about the use
of the concept of skilful means in the various contexts of the differ ...
The Arya Dharma of Sakya Muni, Gautama Buddha. The Ethics of
... The religion of the Buddha was a purely psychological science which was
taught only to those who were admitted into the Brahmachariya Order of
Yellow robed Bhikkhus. The popular religion of gods, hells, pretas, Brahmas,
of ancient India without the blood sacrifices, slightly modified was preached by ...
low-res pdf not print-ready - Research portal
... wisdom. He urged his fellow travelers not to accept his teachings on faith or
authority but to treat them as working hypotheses to be tested in their own
real life experiences and to be fi nally discarded or accepted. Yet, paradoxically, the soteriology that he taught (called Dharma) has come to be ...
Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra - REAL-d
... My study on his biography was published separately in English under the title A Religious
Leader in the Tang: Chengguan’s Biography by The International Institute for Buddhist
Studies in Tokyo. This book has become the standard work of reference on Chengguan in
international Buddhist studies, and is ...
Guide to the Bodhisattva`s Way of Life
... As mentioned earlier, the second reason is that, before entering paranirvana, our
precious Guru, Dharma Lord Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche, was planning to teach us The
Commentary on the Bodhicaryavatara - the Ocean of Good Explanation after we finished
studying the Jewel Nature Treatise (Mahayana-Uttarat ...
Guide to Jodo Shinshu Teachings and Practices
... The Calgary Buddhist Temple gratefully acknowledges the Renken Tokuhon Study Group for providing
the original text, and our mother Temple in Kyoto - the Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha - for supporting
our efforts. It is our hope that this Guide will provide a basic foundation for understanding Jodo
Shins ...
Talking about food does not appease hunger
... different points of view to the Chan Buddhist teachings. Nearly all of the textexcerpts are Chan Buddhist. One could also say that this is an innovative research, in
that there are no such studies that approach Buddhist doctrine starting from the setphrases onwards. Usually the Buddhist studies conc ...
Abhisamayalankara
The Abhisamayālaṅkāra ""Ornament of/for Realization[s]"", abbreviated AA, is one of five Sanskrit-language Mahayana sutras which Maitreya—a bodhisattva or human teacher (the point is somewhat controversial) is said to have revealed to Asanga in Northwest India in the 4th century. Some scholars (Erich Frauwallner, Giuseppe Tucci, Hakiju Ui) refer to the text's author as Maitreya-nātha (""Lord Maitreya"") in order to avoid either affirming the claim of supernatural revelation, or identifying the author as Asanga himself.The AA is never mentioned by Xuanzang, who spent several years at Nalanda in India during the early 7th century, and became a savant in the Maitreya-Asanga tradition. One possible explanation is that the text is late and attributed to Maitreya-Asanga for purposes of legitimacy. The question then hinges on the dating of the earliest extant AA commentaries, those of Arya Vimuktisena (usually given as 6th century, following possibly unreliable information from Taranatha) and Haribhadra (late 8th century).The AA contains eight chapters and 273 verses. Its pithy contents summarize—in the form of eight categories and seventy topics—the Prajñāpāramitā sūtras which the Madhyamaka philosophical school regards as presenting the ultimate truth. Gareth Sparham and John Makransky believe the text to be commenting on the version in 25,000 lines, although it does not explicitly say so. Haribhadra, whose commentary is based on the 8,000-line PP Sūtra, held that the AA is commenting on all PP versions at once (i.e. the 100,000-line, 25,000-line, and 8,000-line versions), and this interpretation has generally prevailed within the commentarial tradition. Several scholars liken the AA to a ""table of contents"" for the PP. Edward Conze admits that the correspondence between these numbered topics, and the contents of the PP is ""not always easy to see...""; and that the fit is accomplished ""not without some violence"" to the text. The AA is widely held to reflect the hidden meaning (sbed don) of the PP, with the implication being that its details are not found there explicitly. (Sparham traces this tradition to Haribhadra's student Dharmamitra.) One noteworthy effect is to recast PP texts as path literature. Philosophical differences may also be identified. Conze and Makransky see the AA as an attempt to reinterpret the PP, associated with Mādhyamaka tenets, in the direction of Yogacara.The AA is studied by all lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, and is one of five principal works studied in the geshe curriculum of the major Gelug monasteries. Alexander Berzin has suggested that the text's prominence in the Tibetan tradition, but not elsewhere, may be due to the existence of the aforementioned commentary by Haribhadra, who was the disciple of Śāntarakṣita, an influential early Indian missionary to Tibet. Je Tsongkhapa's writings name the AA as the root text of the lamrim tradition founded by Atiśa.Georges Dreyfus reports, ""Ge-luk monastic universities... take the Ornament as the central text for the study of the path; they treat it as a kind of Buddhist encyclopedia, read in the light of commentaries by Dzong-ka-ba, Gyel-tsap, and the authors of manuals [monastic textbooks]. Sometimes these commentaries spin out elaborate digressions from a single word of the Ornament."" Dreyfus adds that non-Gelug schools give less emphasis to the AA, but study a somewhat larger number of works (including the other texts of the Maitreya-Asanga corpus) in correspondingly less detail.